When something extraordinary shows up in your life in the middle of the night, you give it a name and make it the best home you can.

It needs to connect with the earth. Things that are processed and reprocessed lose their substance.

When I was just five years old, I loved the scary layer and the symbolical power of the red cloak. I made my mom make me that red cloak, and I had to wear it on Halloween, two years in a row.

When I think of our condition, my heart is heavy. I see men of my own race treated as outlaws and driven from country to country, or shot down like animals.

what has been termed 'correct' English is nothing other than the blatant legitimation of the white middle-class code.

Baseball, because of its continuity over the space of America and the time of America, is a place where memory gathers.

A Christian is something before he does anything; and we have to be Christian before we can act as Christians.

Without the law, you can't have society. But without the arts, you can't have civilisation

We have said we will never collapse, never ever. We may have our droughts, our poverty, but as a people we shall never collapse, never ever.

Let us use our energy and our initiative to solve our problems without relying on prayers and wishful thinking. When we have faith in ourselves, we will find we do not have to have faith in gods.

If you have form'd a circle to go into, Go into it yourself, and see how you would do. They said this mystery never shall cease: The priest promotes war, and the soldier peace.